Loady and OCCON today announced the start of a strategic partnership aimed at making freight tendering processes significantly more efficient, transparent, and error-free for companies.
By integrating Loady into OCCON’s tender processes, customers can drastically reduce the effort required to prepare tender requirements. Uniform and transparently provided loading requirements for all bidders minimize the risk of calculation errors. The result: fewer misunderstandings, fewer mistakes in transport execution, and sustainable process optimization even after the tender has been awarded.
In turn, Loady customers benefit from the exceptional flexibility and service quality for which OCCON has long been recognized in the market. “Our cooperation with Loady offers our customers a double benefit: efficient, transparent processes on the one hand, and customized, flexible services on theother,” explains Sabrina Bähr, Managing Director of OCCON GmbH.
Stefanie Kraus, CEO of Loady GmbH, also emphasizes the importance of thepartnership: “We are truly proud that OCCON, as a local provider of an internationally successful procurement solution, is directly integrating Loady. The added value for their customers was immediately clear to OCCON’s management: the resource-intensive and costly task of preparing data now comes to an end.”
Loady customers from large corporate environments are already using the platform in connection with major procurement and sourcing solutions. Freight forwarders invited to participate in tenders receive structured and traceable logistical requirements, which not only increases efficiency and quality in the bidding process but also reduces data preparation efforts by up to 80%.
Initial joint discussions with industrial customers are already underway. With this partnership, both companies reaffirm their commitment to driving innovation in logistics practice and securing long-term competitive advantages for their customers.
Screenshot of u-tender and integration with Loady data
About Loady
Loady is a startup founded in Mannheim in 2023, originating from the chemical industry. With its central hub for standardized loading requirements, Loady enables shippers, consignees, and logistics service providers to collaborate seamlessly, digitally, and without media disruptions. For industrial logistics, this translates into more efficient and cost-effective processes, as well as a tangible contribution to achieving sustainability goals. Loady provides interfaces to common logistics applications, including SAP S/4HANA, as well as online views for dispatchers and drivers – available in 13 languages. Over 4,000 transport lanes in Europe and the US already benefit from reliable information.
OCCON GmbH is an independent, owner-managed consulting and software company with offices in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, and Riga. It supports manufacturing and trading companies worldwide across various industries in the fields of procurement and logistics. The company stands for high service quality, customized concepts, and innovative solutions. Through its in-house developed platform u-tender, OCCON manages an annual procurement volume of USD 9 billion.
SRS EcoTherm Thermal Waste Treatment Plant is the first to use digital driver training via QR Code in 13 languages
Mannheim and Salzbergen, Germany, 2025, October 13th
The SRS EcoTherm Thermal Waste Treatment Plant in Salzbergen is breaking new ground in driver communication: It is the first plant of its kind to offer digital instructions in currently 13 languages. The aim is to overcome language barriers that are increasing increasingly due to the Europe-wide shortage of drivers and international driver deployment — and thus significantly increase safety and efficiency at the location.
With QR codes right at the factory gate, drivers receive easy-to-understand step-by-step instructions on a smartphone. The content combines text, images and pictograms and guides you through all relevant applications: from the delivery of garbage, white lime or ammonia water to the collection of residual materials or slag. As well as practical processes, the digital sliders also contain clear safety instructions and emergency protocols.
“For years, we have increasingly seen that many drivers speak little or no German and often no English,” explains Markus Bünker, who is responsible for operating the TAS at SRS EcoTherm. “We had to send drivers away from time to time because instruction was simply not possible. With the new solution, we can now reach all drivers — regardless of their origin or language skills. In this way, we improve communication, reduce accident risks and ensure smoother processes.”
Markus Bünker - Responsible for operating the TAS (Photo: Loady GmbH)
As an industrial plant in the CRITIS infrastructure, SRS EcoTherm takes its responsibilities and legal obligations very seriously. By making things easier to understand, they want to ensure that the driver is handling things correctly when delivering and collecting equipment and that his personal safety and that of the system's technology is not endangered. It is also about meeting the obligation to provide evidence of instructions. A direct connection to the system at the scale or at the reception is therefore planned: In future, drivers should be recorded and only be given mandatory training if they are new to the site, have not worked there for a long time or relevant processes have changed.
“For us, digital instruction is more than a practical solution in everyday life — it is an important component of our digital strategy,” emphasizes Erwin Junker, operations manager at SRS EcoTherm. “We want to use innovation where it really makes a difference: for safety, efficiency and the people who work with us every day. The project is a good example of how we combine responsibility with modern technologies.”
Local employees are also increasingly hoping for relief: “We've known many of our drivers for years, communication is no problem and they know their way around here very well. But with the new ones, we are often hands-on and often have to accompany them in order to personally instruct them at the loading or unloading point. It always takes 20-30 minutes and is impossible without a common language — today, a quick scan is enough,” says Ralf Dehmel, employee at the weighing bridge. “Initial experience shows that Spanish drivers in particular are particularly open — they immediately pull out their smartphones, scan the code and follow the instructions.”
Ralf Dehmel - Employee at the weighing bridge (Photo: Loady GmbH)
For the introduction of QR code-based, multilingual instructions, SRS EcoTherm has chosen a solution from Loady and shows how digitization can be used in a practical way: to increase safety, to relieve employees and as a clear answer to the challenges of the international driver market — while at the same time meeting the CRITIS requirements.
About SRS EcoTherm
SRS EcoTherm GmbH, based in Salzbergen, operates a modern thermal waste treatment plant with an annual incineration capacity of 120,000 t. At nominal plant load, it generates around 50 tons of steam per hour, which are converted into electricity at the customer's industrial power plant. The extracted heat is used to supply the customer's production plants located at the site with climate-friendly process steam. As a reliable partner for the customer, it stands for sustainable energy and disposal solutions and relies on modern digitization concepts and resource conservation.
Loady is a start-up founded in Mannheim in 2023 from the chemical industry. With its central hub for standardized loading requirements, Loady is removing a decades-old breaking point in logistics. By creating a uniform understanding and facilitating multi-language communication, the platform enables seamless, digital collaboration between all parties involved. For shippers, recipients of goods and logistics service providers, this means more efficient and cost-effective processes and a clear contribution to achieving their sustainability goals. Loady offers interfaces for common logistics applications and also online views for dispatchers and drivers — available in 13 languages — and is optimally tailored for international logistics.
Data sharing in dangerous goods logistics – CHEManager 02/2025
19.02.2025 – Despite complex requirements, even medium-sized companies can modernise their processes and position themselves for future growth through digitalisation and innovative approaches. This is shown by the example of Scheren Logistik, a family business that specialises in the storage of hazardous materials for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
In addition to 40,000 pallet spaces and daily handling of around 50 lorries, the logistics company offers a wide range of additional services – including sampling, interface management and refrigerated storage. With innovative solutions, 32-year-old Managing Director Björn Scheren wants to master the key challenges facing his company and make operations efficient and future-proof. He describes personnel as the biggest challenge, referring not only to recruitment in his company, but also and especially to the haulage companies commissioned by customers.
“Staff turnover is increasing enormously, in our warehouse and especially among lorry drivers. This is critical for us, because if drivers are dissatisfied or don’t understand processes, the entire process comes to a standstill,” explains Scheren. Waiting times are a frequent cause of frustration, which not only affects efficiency but also the satisfaction of everyone involved. And waiting times quickly arise when the variety of languages increases and makes everyday work more difficult on both sides, which is particularly true for the complex processes in chemical logistics. “The requirements for the drivers not only vary depending on the product group – for example with regard to load securing or seals – but also have to be communicated in different languages. In our despatch office, it’s pure paperwork madness,” says Scheren, describing the situation.
Every notice is translated into five languages. In addition, regulations such as the signing of CMR documents or compliance with IMO guidelines for the transport of dangerous goods by sea required a lot of explanatory work.
Even though Scheren is trying to standardise processes, it remains a challenge to meet the requirements of all customers in a uniform and efficient manner. In addition, customer requirements vary considerably. A lot of information is only available in internal work instructions and notes, as there was previously no methodology for communicating the respective requirements at the loading points clearly and in multiple languages. A clear plan was developed to change this. With the help of innovative digital solutions such as Loady, a standardised data hub developed specifically for the requirements of supply chain and chemical logistics, processes and communication with customers, freight forwarders and drivers are to be sustainably improved.
In future, drivers should be able to access structured and multilingual information that is easy to understand thanks to clear displays and visual elements. It is also expected that this will create standardised processes for customers and haulage companies. “We no longer have to define the requirements for drivers individually for each customer, but can use them across the board. With Loady, we enable our customers to use our requirements data. It takes very little effort and everything that applies to the delivery or collection of the respective products from our warehouse can be transferred directly to our customers’ communications with the haulage companies,” says Scheren. Customers and the haulage companies they commission are also informed directly of any changes. This minimises waiting times and makes the processes more pleasant for the drivers, who now have access to the information in their own language and can understand it better. For Scheren, one thing is certain: “With the right digital tools and a clear focus on the needs of our customers and partners, we can not only master the current challenges, but also remain successful in the long term.“ (bm)
Loady and Trusted Carrier announce their partnership
Digitalization and automation in logistics are only possible with reliable data that is digitally available at all times. The two platforms Loady and Trusted Carrier are pursuing precisely this goal and have concluded a cooperation agreement to simplify implementation.
Industrial customers and transport service providers who want to optimize their logistics will benefit from the agreement between the two master data providers
In the first joint deployment at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site, the partners cover all processes from transport preparation to fully automated truck dispatch and right through to the loading point in an end-to-end digital process
Mannheim / Frankfurt, 16 December 2024 – Loady and Trusted Carrier, two innovative platforms that provide standardized master data for digital logistics are entering into a partnership for collaboration and joint activities with industrial customers. What both solutions have in common is that they provide data that, for the first time ever, can be managed centrally, structured and, above all, at first hand and then shared with other companies via open interfaces. The focus of the two platforms is 100% complementary:
In the case of Trusted Carrier, the focus is on current information about vehicles and drivers, i.e. truck and equipment types, loading capacities or the validity of driving licenses. Loady is about requirements and instructions for loading and unloading at various locations and loading points, i.e. opening and loading times, applicable handling processes or required technical equipment.
Fig. 1: Philipp Rennert and Lorena Meyer from Trusted Carrier and Elzbieta Wiankowska and Stefanie Kraus from Loady want to empower the automation of logistics with reliable master data
Harmonization of data and easy verification of logistics requirements
Philipp Rennert and Lorena Meyer, Chief Sales Officer and Project Manager at Trusted Carrier, and Stefanie Kraus and Elzbieta Wiankowska, CEO and COO at Loady, agree: the joint approach of their two solutions enables industrial customers to optimize truck handling at the gate and loading points. Their goal is to radically digitalize the still very manual and error-prone flow of information in the highly fragmented logistics industry. Truck journeys that are poorly planned, under-equipped or with under-qualified drivers will become less common with their two solutions – reliability and predictability in the supply chain logistics will increase.
Fig. 2: Pre-checking trucks using Loady’s target values and Trusted Carrier’s actual values is so easy
“With digitally available data from Loady and Trusted Carrier, shippers, freight forwarders and consignees are working together seamlessly for the first time. Our joint approach saves all business and logistics partners valuable time and therefore money. This is a key success factor for the further digitalization and automation of logistics. Our two platforms provide critical components for end-to-end visibility in supply chain systems and the success of current digitalization and optimization initiatives,” says Elzbieta Wiankowska, co-founder and COO of Loady GmbH. “Control along the process chain, e.g. as part of a supply chain control tower, is actually unthinkable without reliable information from Loady or Trusted Carrier,” adds Philipp Rennert. “For safety reasons alone, every industrial company should be able to know who is on their premises and whether the driver, truck and product have their paperwork in order and meet transportation requirements – all without time-consuming and error-prone manual processes.”
Trusted Carrier and Loady support automation of truck execution at BASF
The first joint customer of Loady and Trusted Carrier, BASF in Ludwigshafen, is currently in the process of automating the truck handling processes at the site. Data from both platforms, Trusted Carrier and Loady, is to be merged for check-in. The aim of Thomas Grunwald, Head of Truck Handling at BASF, is to reduce throughput times at the gate, manual effort and the number of vehicle rejections due to missing or faulty transport equipment. „With up to 2.000 trucks a day, we expect to save time thanks to automated checks. The data from Trusted Carrier provides us with actual information on the driver, vehicle and equipment used and the validity of the necessary documents. The information from Loady in turn helps us to read out the target requirements, which vary depending on the product and the loading point.”
At BASF, the inspection itself is integrated into the star/trac yard management system. The interfaces available on both platforms enable their data to be integrated into a wide range of transport logistics solutions.
About Loady GmbH
Loady is the first data hub for sharing loading requirements in supply chain logistics. The Mannheim-based startup was founded in 2023 out of the chemical industry to address a long-standing disconnect in digital collaboration and ensure smooth first and last miles in industrial transportation. With its standardized data model, API interfaces and user-specific views in 7 European languages so far, Loady enables effective digital communication of current loading and unloading requirements. Shippers, consignees, external warehouses, tank farms, freight terminals and industrial park operators who manage their data on Loady and share it with their ecosystem speed up the entire logistics process, reduce efforts, costs and CO2 emissions. Data from over 1.500 products and 45 locations in Europe is already available in Loady for the transportation industry.
Further information can be found at www.loady.com.
Trusted Carrier GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2021 on the initiative of the German Road Haulage, Logistics and Disposal Association (BGL). Trusted Carrier is the trustworthy, digital and open platform between the shipping industry, transport partners and drivers. Participating partners use the portal to exchange company, component and driver master data, which is 100% checked and validated by Trusted Carrier. Drivers are equipped with a GDPR-compliant and biometrically secured app on their smartphone or onboard unit, which meets the highest security requirements. This creates a direct communication channel into the driver’s cab for everyone involved in the process. Additional functionalities include the exchange of electronic documents, driver community offers and the integration of other partner offers in the logistics industry. Trusted Carrier started in the chemical industry in Germany and is now expanding its solution with partnerships in related sectors such as the petrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as providing services in other European countries. More information at www.trusted-carrier.com
